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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






2. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






3. Transit of Venus on June 11.






4. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






5. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






6. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






7. Triple conjunction Mars






8. Transit of Mercury.






9. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






10. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






11. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






12. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






13. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






14. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






15. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






16. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






17. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






18. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






19. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






20. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






21. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






22. Transit of Venus on June 9.






23. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






24. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






25. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






26. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






27. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






28. Transit of Venus on June 11.






29. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






30. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






31. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






32. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






33. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






34. March 17






35. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






36. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






37. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






38. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






39. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






40. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






41. Return of Halley's Comet.






42. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






43. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






44. December 10






45. Return of Halley's Comet.






46. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






47. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






48. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






49. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






50. Transit of Venus.